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RichAPI pricing and alternatives: LinkedIn people search API, POST /lead_search

RichAPI's sitellms.txtBest LinkedIn people search API in 2026
15% complete: 2 of the 13 key fields we checkSee the 13 fields
$0.00per 1,000 peopleThe cheapest of the 194 plans we rank by price is EnvoAPI, $499 monthly, Scale, GET /v1/companies/people, at $0.02 per 1,000.
Plan: Sandbox one of RichAPI's 5 plans
Call: POST /lead_search one of RichAPI's 4 calls
API: LinkedIn people search API one of RichAPI's 19 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • 2 of the 13 key fields we check. Experience, Location.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 100 credits once, enough for 200 results.
  • One call. You call POST /lead_search. Every input is optional. The call returns the matching people.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no API terms. Use data: no API terms.

RichAPI: LinkedIn people search API alternatives

The table starts with RichAPI's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 people closest to RichAPI's. We also show the Bytemine plan. Its price is farther from the price of RichAPI's cheapest paid plan.

RichAPI, $800 pack, Scale, POST /lead_searchCaptain Data, $14,820 monthly, Platinum, 2,000,000 credits / month, GET /people/searchWizLeads, $39 monthly, Freelancer, POST /tasks/add, Create Task (Account-Less Mode)SocialCrawl, £15 pack, Starter, GET /v1/linkedin/company/peopleScrupp, $169 monthly, 20,000 credits / month, POST /linkedin/searchBytemine, pay as you go
$ per 1,000$8.00$7.706$7.80$8.001$8.45$10.00
Completeness15%31%38%46%15%46%
Billingpay firstmonthlymonthlypay firstmonthlypay as you go
Pay$800$14,820$39£15$169per call
Enough for100,000 resultsabout 76,923 pages a month5,000 results a month250 pages20,000 results a monthas many as you pay for
Freshnessunknownliveliveliveliveunknown
Who can get itanyoneprofessionals (anyone acting for their commercial, industrial or liberal activity)anyoneanyone 18 or overanyone aged 18 or overanyone

Every LinkedIn people search API provider we score, ranked

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-25.

  1. app.richapi.ai/api/openapi
  2. rapidapi.com/RichAPI/api/linkedin-scraper-api13
  3. rapidapi.com/RichAPI/api/linkedin-scraper-api13/pricing
  4. rapidapi.com/terms
  5. richapi.ai/data-transparency
  6. richapi.ai/data/leads-data
  7. richapi.ai/data/person-enrichment
  8. richapi.ai/pricing
  9. richapi.ai/pricing.md
  10. richapi.ai/security
  11. richapi.ai/terms

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Experiencecurrent job
  • Education, not in the answer
  • Skills, not in the answer
  • Headline, not in the answer
  • About, not in the answer
  • Location
  • Photo, not in the answer
  • Followers, not in the answer
  • Connections, not in the answer
  • Certifications, not in the answer
  • Languages, not in the answer
  • Recommendations, not in the answer
  • Open to work, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000$0.00
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Perresult
Start fee$0.00
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 69 other calls
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchAdvanced LinkedIn lead search with 30+ filters including seniority, function, geography, company, title, Sales Navigator URL, and exclusion filter support.
Data
Keep datano API terms
Use datano API terms
Plan
Pay$0
You get100 credits
Enough for200 results, once
Rate limit
Per second1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendnothing required. Optional: search_query, sales_nav_url, locations, geo_ids, seniority, functions, industries, company_size, years_of_experience, years_at_current_company, profile_languages, current_companies, past_companies, current_job_titles, past_job_titles, first_names, last_names, schools, recently_changed_jobs, company_headquarter_locations, exclude_seniority, exclude_industries, exclude_functions, exclude_locations, exclude_geo_ids, exclude_current_companies, exclude_past_companies, exclude_current_job_titles, exclude_past_job_titles, exclude_schools, exclude_company_headquarter_locations, page, session_id
MethodPOST
Path/lead_search
About the plan
PlanSandbox
Who can get itanyone
The 26 fields the plan's answer can hold

profile ID, first name, last name, location, profile URL, premium, open profile, current positions title, current positions company, current positions started on, current positions tenure at company, current positions tenure at title, session ID, page size, page, total pages, total results, offset, request ID, execution time, credits consumed, credits remaining, credits status, credits reason code, credits reason, estimated credits charge

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